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Macron's comments came after a series criticizing an article by a Chinese diplomat that the Western response to coronavirus -

French President Emmanuel Macron has raised the question of China's handling of the Corona-Virus outbreak.

Mr Macron told the Financial Times that it was "to suggest naïve", China had dealt better with The Crisis , to add to things "not happening, we know".

More people died in the United States and several European countries than in China, where The Virus showed up.

The United States and great Britain also have to pay a doubt On China and the speed with which to respond, or informed the other.

praise, However, The World health organization (WHO) China's measures.

Worldwide, More Than two million people have been infected and More Than 145,000 died.

The United States, France, Italy and Spain are among the countries Most affected.

What is behind this French-Chinese confrontation?

France has seen cases 141,000 cases of Covid-19, and nearly 18,000 deaths. China recorded 4,632 deaths - including an additional 1,290 deaths announced Friday in The City of Wuhan, where the pandemic began and where a strict closure was recently lifted.

" Local officials said the early reporting, there was delayed and inaccurate.

the President of Macron's interview came after a weekend of tension, which saw the convening of the meeting, the Chinese Ambassador in Paris by the French Ministry of foreign Affairs to Express displeasure about an article on the Chinese Embassy, the said website, that Western countries had left the elderly homes for the elderly to die in foster care.

a large number of deaths due to a disease caused by coronavirus, Covid-19.

China dismissed The Row as a "misunderstanding". Government spokesman Zhao Lijian said China never had any negative comments about how France is dealing with the epidemic was "and has no intention of any".

Mr Macron was asked whether or not to bring China's authoritarian reaction to the outbreak under control had exposed the weakness of the Western democracies, and replied that it was not a comparison between open societies and those who suppressed the truth.

"in view of these differences, the decisions, and what China is today, what I respect, let's say so naive, it's much better in dealing with these," He Said .

"We don't know. There are clearly things that didn't happen, we know. "

He Said , the absence of freedoms in the fight against the pandemic, the Western democracies would threaten.

"We can't accept that. You can not give up their fundamental DNA on the grounds that it is a health crisis. "

What is accused of China?

Many Western officials come Under Pressure to explain why the Corona Virus outbreak is on the loose on their populations proportionally much smaller than China's.

The UK and the US leadership that China and explanations you can't trust numbers.

the British Foreign Secretary , Dominic Raab , said at a press conference on Thursday that the "Hard Questions " have been asked how the outbreak started "- and how it would not have stopped".

He Said it would spread a "Deep Dive " into how The Virus was able to, from China, and said, it is not "business-as-usual could" after The Crisis .

U.S. President Donald Trump has also taken a harder line against China.

On Wednesday asked why the US made such a high proportion of the global death rate, he replied: "does anyone really believe that the numbers of some of these countries?", He Said , naming China.

He is the US said it was also looking into unconfirmed reports that the coronavirus can be developed from a laboratory in Wuhan, rather than in a market in The City .

Fox News in the US, citing unnamed sources, has suggested that the Corona Virus is accidentally leaked from a Wuhan plant because of lax security protocols.

The Washington Post newspaper has reported that information from diplomatic cables. They show that in the year 2018, which were sent to US the science diplomats, which on repeated visits to a Chinese research institution. Officials

the U.S. intelligence services have an interest, The Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley Gene said on Tuesday.

"We had to watch a lot of intelligence. And I would just say at this point, it is conclusive, although The Weight of evidence seems to indicate that natural. But we don't know for certain. "

There is no evidence of any kind that the Sars-CoV-2-virus was released accidentally from a laboratory, says The Bbc 's science editor Paul Rincon.

An online theory that went viral in January, suggested The Virus could have been developed in a laboratory as a bioweapon. This allegation has been repeatedly dismissed by scientists, who - probably in the Bats .

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Source of news: bbc.com